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Jess Mahler
Neville Park
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After 3 years at Shopify, I was just told they’re letting me go.

Due to my immigration status here in the US, I pretty much need a job right away. Remote preferred but also open to hybrid/in-person roles (Boulder/Denver metro). If you know anyone who’s hiring (and ideally sponsoring H-1B), I’d love to connect! Boosts much appreciated 🙏

A bit about me: 8+ years of experience, primarily in backend. Most recently worked on Shopify’s checkout platform, focusing on Shop Pay, used by millions of shoppers and handles billions in transactions annually.

#fedihire #jobsearch #ruby #rubyonrails #java

After 3 years at Shopify, I was just told they’re letting me go.

Due to my immigration status here in the US, I pretty much need a job right away. Remote preferred but also open to hybrid/in-person roles (Boulder/Denver metro). If you know anyone who’s hiring (and ideally sponsoring H-1B), I’d love to connect! Boosts much appreciated 🙏

A bit about me: 8+ years of experience, primarily in backend. Most recently worked on Shopify’s checkout platform, focusing on Shop Pay, used by millions of shoppers and handles billions in transactions annually.

#fedihire #jobsearch #ruby #rubyonrails #java

Looking for a new work place starting in 2026Q1.
Remote and/or near #Hannover / #Braunschweig

Senior Software Developer, primarily in #Java / #Kotlin but I know a few other langs from #CPP, #Batch, #AndroidDev to #CSharp and I'm experienced enough to know programming is about communcating with fellow humans and every other computer thing can be learned shortly.
I can't stress how unimportant the lang is.

Queer, CCC, degree of disability
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#fedihired #hireme

Looking for a new work place starting in 2026Q1.
Remote and/or near #Hannover / #Braunschweig

Senior Software Developer, primarily in #Java / #Kotlin but I know a few other langs from #CPP, #Batch, #AndroidDev to #CSharp and I'm experienced enough to know programming is about communcating with fellow humans and every other computer thing can be learned shortly.
I can't stress how unimportant the lang is.

Queer, CCC, degree of disability
BoostOKBoostOKBoostOK, Thanks!
#fedihired #hireme

Java’s Not Gone, It’s Just Hiding in Plain Sight

From powering Minecraft on the PlayStation to driving high-performance financial systems, Java remains a quiet force behind technologies we use every day.
Our latest blog takes a thoughtful look at how this long-standing language continues to make an impact, sometimes where you’d least expect it.

👉 Read more:
https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/from-minecraft-to-markets-java-hiding-in-plain-sight/

#FreeBSD#Java#OpenSource#TechTrends#Programming#SoftwareDevelopment

Java’s Not Gone, It’s Just Hiding in Plain Sight

From powering Minecraft on the PlayStation to driving high-performance financial systems, Java remains a quiet force behind technologies we use every day.
Our latest blog takes a thoughtful look at how this long-standing language continues to make an impact, sometimes where you’d least expect it.

👉 Read more:
https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/from-minecraft-to-markets-java-hiding-in-plain-sight/

#FreeBSD#Java#OpenSource#TechTrends#Programming#SoftwareDevelopment

The FreeBSD logo and the Java Duke waving

Over the past seven months I've been working on improving the support for FreeBSD in OpenJDK, sponsored by the @ FreeBSD Foundation.

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When I started on this project, we had about 100 failing Hotspot tests on FreeBSD, in addition to around 40 in the rest of the JDK. Getting below 10 in total (on x86_64) feels like a significant milestone, and worthy of a bit of celebration! party_popper

It's been an interesting, and very educational ride. Some of those tests were pretty easy wins, but some required delving deep into the internals of both OpenJDK and FreeBSD, as well as getting acquainted with the basics of the ARM architecture and instruction set. (Remembering how fascinated I was when the Acorn Archimedes was launched, I'd say this was long overdue!)

I finally feel that the OpenJDK BSD port is nearing a state where it makes sense to try to upstream it, and get it fully integrated into the OpenJDK infrastructure and build/test/CI frameworks. There's still a lot of work remaining to get there, it has to be done in portions and with the cooperation of the upstream project, but I hope to be able to spend the next six months or so to get there.

Thanks a lot to the welcoming and supportive OpenJDK developer community, as well as the @ FreeBSD Foundation and the people there for sponsoring and supporting the project, and for providing help and insights about the FreeBSD internals when I got stuck.

# OpenJDK # java # FreeBSD # BSD # programming # mywork